Kieslowski - Three Colors Trilogy - Poll

o duh the three amigos also

didn't like blue at the time, v disappointing after double life
liked white but it felt slight at the time, my opinion of it greatly improved after *rescreening* it
loved red

i don't know how i forgot almodovar since when i thought about irene jacob and her floudering in hollywood i thought of penelope cruz temporarily (and on occasion still) suffering the same fate

In my mind the "debate" in 1994 wasn't between Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump: more like PF vs Red. Kieslowski's rep was such that he got Best Director and Screenplay nods that year -- and Tarantino himself was a fan.

IIRC, it's mentioned in Criterion TDLoV book that Tarentino wanted Irene Jacob to play Mia Wallace, but she was already commited to Red.

and thus a life was saved

They certainly did have cachet. I wasn't the only guy at the time who bought the Blue score (by "Van Den Budenmayer").

also:

Van Den Budenmayer[After Kieślowski's death, Harvey Weinstein (then head of Miramax Films, which distributed the last four Kieślowski films in the US) wrote a eulogy for him in Premiere magazine. In it he said that Quentin Tarantino saw The Double Life of Véronique at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and took note of its star, Irène Jacob. He apparently wrote the part of Bruce Willis's wife in Pulp Fiction for her, but she was unavailable for the shoot.

If you didn't know, The whole Trilogy coming from Criterion prob' by the end of this year.

I'm going to have to buy it again??

Thanks for the PF clarification Alfred!

blue had a huge impact on me when it came out. I went back and saw it a second time with a date. that date became my wife.

a couple years ago we were having a yard sale and an old lady pulled a vhs copy of blue out of a box. my wife described the movie to her and how it was our first date. the old lady said, "and you still married him? must've been love."

so yeah, blue.

happy birthday krzysztof kieslowski!

Red probably the most powerful of these movies, but I have seen White the most.

BLUE BLUE BLUE

white. white is hilarious. none of the others are hilarious.

when i was a teenager my favorite was red hands down though, mostly cuz of irene jacob and her bubble gum.

White, I think. Struggled with the other two to a certain extent, but always liked the closeness of death to the humour in White, the melancholy, and the portrait of adult male companionship.

Red

saw em all just once.

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Red is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Blue!

I wish I could remember them. Don't remember anything, really. Hardly remember Double Life of Veronique either.

juliette binoche furiously eating a lollipop

the scene where juliette binoche drags her knuckles along a rock wall is weirdly hard to take for me

^^^^ the most memorable image.

Veronique is dulllllllllllllllllll.

sound design in blue is so well done

that part where she throws the sheet music into the garbage truck

xxxp i guess that's true as i think about it literally every time i walk past a rock wall

many many memorable moments/images in blue

lollipop wrapper blowing in the wind, kids jumping into the pool, the sugarcube, the final montage

The lollipop wrapper in the wind is luscious. I don't dislike anything you mentioned, but when I think of Blue the first thing that comes to mind is Binoche scraping her knuckles, and those stabs of classical music.

i like the kids jumping into the pool too but honestly it is pretty hard not to roll your eyes at juliette binoche floating in the FETAL POSITION in a pool which is GUESS WHICH COLOR and then agreeing to hang out with the prostitute after which A WHOLE BUNCH OF YELLING PEOPLE PILE INTO THE PREVIOUSLY EMPTY POOL DO YOU SEE

I love the expression of silent contempt when Binoche watches that old woman struggle and fail to stick her plastic bottle in the recycling bin.

nah even that's better in white -- his reassured smirk at knowing that there are people worse off than him.

I kinda feel like blue as a whole is kind of eye-rolly? could write the whole thing off like eh europeans are saddo classicals but for me you either go with the melodrama or not and I'm all in

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/sugar.jpg

I kinda feel like blue as a whole is kind of eye-rolly? could write the whole thing off like eh europeans are saddo classicals but for me you either go with the melodrama or not and I'm all in

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yeah this is all true and sometimes i am in too.

That's why I prefer Red.

A review at that time called Blue "an exquisite tone poem." Then added: "But movies aren't poems."

no movies are pineapples made of sound and images

intellectually it's easy to reason out why red is the better picture but blue works on my emotions like music and that's a magical thing so it gets the banana

(last minute campaigning)

my only bit of last-minute campaigning for white would be to remind people of the line "my god... home at last" followed immediately by the awesome theme song

Yes, that was a beautiful scene, including the leadup to it: Karol fighting, "Look out! He has scissors!" The gulls swarming above the field.

Also great: Karol and Mikolaj sliding across the frozen pond, Mikolaj screaming wordlessly.

Think White could pull an upset here.

yeah that's not gonna happen

it will be red blue white

but everybody feel free to prove me wrong

I'm going to count 2nd as an upset, if it happens. Still a slim chance I know.

white will not pull an upset here, but i really do love it, so much more earthy, sardonic and spirited than the other two

somehow when i opened this thread i knew 'veronique' was gonna come up and that alfred was gonna deem it dull!

voted blue, which i remember chiefly for juliette binoche's incredible performance and the masterful way that kieslowski stages the opening car crash - lyrical and terrifying cinema.

veronique is my favourite, i;m total sucker for 'supernatural' art movies

I didn't find the "metaphysics" of Veronique compelling, and without that armature the two stories weren't either. He paced the protagonist's musing and noodling more interesting in Blue and Red.

Moreover, maybe it's her age but Irene Jacob's guilelessness was less sticky in Red.

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I didn't find the "metaphysics" of Veronique compelling, and without that armature the two stories weren't either. He paced the protagonist's musing and noodling more interesting in Blue and Red.

it's the storytelling that's so beautiful in veronique, i think; kieslowski's so confident, and thinks highly enough of his audience to tell the stories v sparely + elliptically, leaving us to fill in the jumps and blanks. seeing her musing + noodling, detached and inert, pretty much separated from the urgency of the guys she hangs out with and the transience of everything else going on, becomes this compelling, involving focus, to me. it's one of my favourites, on account of just how well it's accessorised & presented & what it elicits in me as a character study.

i think the film's construction is remarkable. all those echoes in the images and dialogue, from scene to scene practically; with a heavier touch they'd be unbearable, with a lighter touch they'd be invisible

a little nervous about this one still but https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/03/28/sonata-on-human-connection-red-1994/

lol i forgot i cannibalized my last post in this thread for a sentence in this piece

only got to this now but really wonderful piece, risk pays off imo

yeah White is the best one

hm!

White was certainly may fav back in the day, for the humor. Funny, I almost revisited Red last night, for the first time in 15yrs or so.

Blue was one of the first movies I went for when the pandemic hit, I think it has an amazing opening sequence and stays good but nothing lives up to that tunnel or the extreme close up of the eye... Ditto for opening of Red, which is also funnier than I remember. White is just the most consistent one imo, and it's hilarious, with the other two I find myself looking at the cinematography, sort of disengaged from the story.

like when he gets dumped out of the suitcase and looks up and says "I'M HOME!" and it's the most drab ugly looking patch of mud and snow with a bulldozer, and then cue the orchestra. lmao

xxp I watched Red last night and White the night before--I watched Blue all the way back in March and for whatever reason didn't feel compelled to rewatch, glad I did

xp i don't particularly like these films but this is for sure the best moment

red is stacked with amazing moments but i always enjoy hearing from white truthers

The Double life of Véronique was really beautiful! I hadn’t seen it before now. The metaphysical story that remained unexplained, the sense of a connection between lives, the music, use of color, cinematography were all incredible. And Irène Jacob